November 26, 2004 Conflated Characters

You won't go far in a survey of films without running into a particular kind of fold resulting from the essential fact that every character we see is portrayed by an actor. That notion of one being in another being's skin is often exploited in an explicit, onscreen fold: one character in another character's skin.

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(Freaky Friday (1976))

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(Big (1988)): Is this the first version of character swapping where the character is implanted in an older version of themselves? I think so.

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(Freaky Friday (2003))

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13 Going on 30 (2004): This follows the "Big" template where one character wakes up in an older version of themselves instead of another discrete character.

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